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Odeen Delano Powell

Odeen Celano PowellOdeen Delano Powell
Photo on right: Odeen (in chair), with relative Leslie Buchanan

 Purple HeartPrisoner of War Medal

Rank/Rate Pharmacist's Mate, Third Class
Service Number 287 36 41
Birth Date November 28, 1920
From Fry, Green County, Kentucky
Decorations Purple Heart, Prisoner of War Medal
Ship USS Canopus (AS-9)
Date of Death October 24, 1944
Location Aboard the Hellship Arisan Maru
Circumstances Died when Arisan Maru, transporting Allied Prisoners of War from the Philippines to Japan, was sunk by USS Shark (SS-314)
Remarks Odeen was born in Greensburg, Kentucky.

Photos courtesy of Deborah Buchanan Brizendine, distant relative of Odeen, and niece of Leslie Buchanan.  Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

 

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